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The original documents are located in Box 18, folder "Press Statements (News Summaries),
9/25/1976" of the Michael Raoul-Duval Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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News Commond
BERRED R. FORD LIBRARY
The President's Daily News Summary
FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 19
Leading The News
FOREIGN POLICY
Page
HAK Ends Africa Mission,
Ford Makes Statement
AP, UPI, Nets
1
Soviets Widen 'Disarm Proposals
C.S. Monitor
2
DEBATES
Media Reaction
Changes Needed in Debate Format
CBS
3
Major Newspapers Give Mixed
Reactions
NBC
4
Issues
Neither Man a Winner, Neither
a Loser
Boston Globe
5
Great Debate Boring, But Points
Were There
Boston Globe
5
Ford Won It on Points, But Who
Is Listening
Boston Globe
6
Ho Hum, It Was Dull, But Carter
Had an Edge
Boston Globe
6
The First Debates: Not Exactly
A Winner
Newsday
7
The Economy Dominant- and Most
Divisice - Issue
Boston Globe
8
In a Draw, Ford Benefited
Newsday
9
Ford Plays President and Wins
Round One
Boston Globe
11
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
Ford Courts Ethnic Vote
AP, UPI, Nets
12
US Steel
Special Prosecutor, SEC Probe Ford
1972 Campaign Fund
CBS
13
No Reason for Jumping to
Conclusions on Ford
Detriot Free Press
14
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Issues
Carter Says Ford Distorted
Tax Reform Proposals
AP, UPI, Nets
15
Jimmy Carter's Project Days
Wall St. Journal
17
Finances
Carter's Street Money Stirs
Election Panel Crackdown
L.A.:Times
18
Playboy Interview
Lust, But Not Least
L.A. Times
19
ELECTION
Strategy
Race Is Close in States That
Count
Detroit Free Press
20
Tight California Race Could
Help Ford
L.A. Times
21
PRESIDENCY
Tax Bill Full. of Weaknesses
Milwaukee Sentinel
22
1
FOREIGN POLICY
HAK Ends Africa Mission, Ford Makes Statement
Secretary Kissinger wound up his African peace shuttle Friday
with a warning to the Soviet Union not to meddle in the racial turmoil
of Southern Africa.
Concluding the 12-day mission , Kissinger siad, before leaving
for Washington, "We believe that it should be in the interests
of all countries to promote peace in Southern Africa. And we
would hope that the Soviet Union would not, for the sake of
idealogy or great-power rivalry, try to introduce an element of
contention which must, above all, hurt the peoples of southern
Africa and destroy any opportunity for peace." (AP)
Travelling back to Washington, Kissinger heard excerpts of
Ian Smiths speech announcing the transition of power to the black
majority in Rhodesia within two years.
Smith said the time for white majority rule has run out.
He emphasised the transition is not what white Rhodesians would
like but pressure. from the United States and South Africa left
them no choice.
Upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Kissinger told reporters.
"We have made encouraging progress. We belive there is now a good
opportunity for settling the issues of Rhodesia nad making progress
toward negotiations on Namibia." (NBC)
Barrie Dunsmore commented, "Kissinger is believed to feel it is
important to move quickly now. He feats that if things drag on,
the Soviets would be tempted to back one of the more radical groups.
For its part, the US does not want to get involved with any of
the factions. That's what happened in Angola and preventing a new
Angola was one of the main objectives of his shuttle.' (ABC)
President Ford met with Kissinger Friday afternoon and later
told reporters, "The road is now open for an African solution
to African problem, free of outside intervention, violence and
bitterness. This has been the objective of the United States
and the purpose of the skillfull and energetic diplomacy we have
pursued. We call on other nations to support, not impede the African
search for a peaceful settlement. " (CBS, NBC)
Richard Valeriani said Kissinger insists he did not threaten
Smith or put any really heavy pressure on him.
President Ford thanked both British Prime Minister Callahan
and Prime Minister Vorster of South Africa for their roles, but
he never mentioned Kissinger in his formal statement, Robert
Pierpoint reporter. (CBS)
"The President did invite Kissinger to the Oval Office for
a briefing, but Mr. Ford's use of the imperial "we" throughout
his statement was a clear reminder that the next debate with
Carter is on foreign policy and the first Ford moves have been
made," Pierpoint said. -- AP UDT.
FOREIGN POLICY
Soviets widen disarm proposais
By David K. Willis
Washington thinks Soviet party leader
Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Leonid Brezhnev himself is promoting the
Moscow
treaty on mass-destruction weapons, but the
The Soviet Union is following a careful, three-pronged
United States objects to generalities that might
strategy in the corridors of the United Nations as the current
interfere with specific current negotiations on
General Assembly session unfolds:
other issues.
E Apparently genuinely alarmed at the prospect of a perpet-
Moscow also wants an immediate world dis-
their foreign-aid program, which Western ana-
C.S. Monitor, 9/24/96
lysts see as limited, political in aim, and hard-
nosed.
Pierpoint
Kissincer
to
a
made, Carter Pierpoint 1S on foreign said. policy and the first the Ford next debate with
Media Reaction
3
DEBATES
Changes Needed in Debate Format
Roger Mudd and Eric Sevareid agreed Friday the first
Ford-Carter debate was dull, and changes must be made in the
debate format to enliven the following confrontations.
Roger Mudd said both President Ford and Jimmy Carter
were "over-trained, over-prepared, force-fed, and therefore,
they were flat and dull.
"The rules and the arrangements left no room for spontan-
eity. The only non-scheduled occurence came as Gov. Carter was
talking about a breakdownn in trust among our people. Thereupon
there was a breakdown among the audio systems, and the sudden
silence probably woke up a lot of voters."
To enliven the format in future debates, Mudd said
both sides are considering elminating the middle follow-up
Q&A.
Eric Sevareid that the length of the time segment for
statements or rebuttal be increased, and that the number of
reporters be reduced to two. In that way, he argued the quality
of the debates would be improved.
Sevareid also said that the candidates should be permitted
to set the tone of the debates by making opening statments in-
stead of responding to reporters' questions. --CBS (9/24/76)
Media Reaction
4
DEBATES
Major Newspapers Give Mixed Reactions
In an NBC special report, the views of the newspapers in
Atlanta, Chicago and Washington were reported.
Mike Jackson, in Chicago, said one newspaper said Ford had
done better than Carter in the debates but two other newspapers
sàid neither candidate was really the winner. Polls of voters
were equally ambiguous. One Chicago alderman polled the voters
in his ward and found 70 per cent of them felt Ford had won. Another
survey, done by a newspaepr, said Carter had done well enough
to win the support of a number of previously undecided voters
concluding Carter and Ford were about equal.
In Atlanta, Fred Francis reported the Atlanta Constitution
felt both candidates' may have won the debates. The paper siad
Carter's problem was to show that he is not fuzzy on the issues
and Ford's was to show that he is intelligent. The Constitution
said both candidates made some headway toward those difficultiis.
Onter Souther newspapers were not impressed. The Montgomery Advertiser
siad Ford didn't knock over the podium and Carter kept his teeth
under control. The Columbia South Carolina Record called the
debate a crashing bore.
John Cochran in Washington siad it all depended on which newspaper
was read to determine who was the winner. The Washington Post
seemed to give the nod to Presidnet Ford on the basis of the
Roper Poll. The Washington Star, however, in their poll, gave
Carter a 3 point edge. The Star also reported Carter won because
Ford was put on the defensive and that none of the panelists
was mean enough to question Carter on his interview in Playboy.
-- NBC -- (9/24/76)
,
neither man a loser
It was close. Neither man emerged
fiscal records of the Ford and Nixoi
a. clear winner. Neither committed a
administration. Ford scored when hi
fatal blunder.
target was the Democratic congress.
Descident Ford seemed th have the
By David Wilson
testants is the President. Carter scored
with his attack on the economic and
David Wilson is a Globe columnist.
Great debate boring,
but points were there
The great debate last night did not
As Carter's confidence mounted it
really get off the ground until it was
was visible in his style; he smiled occa-
Carole Surkin
Boston Globe, 9/24/7
but who was listening?
It might have been the first time in
have saved us from an endless assault of
the history of American television that
statistics, percentages and the assurance
millions of viewers prayed for the
that things would be terrific with either
chance to see a Charmin commercial. A1-
ouv in the Oval Office Tanu-
Mike
Barnicle
Ho hum, it was dull,
but Carter had an edge
I thought the long-awaited con-
well for him just as did the President's
frontation between President Gerald
tough assessment of the former Georg-
Ford and Democratic presidential
ia governor's stewardship during his
ly: David
arrell
Administration as a "travesty" scored
David Farrell is a Globe columnist.
Boston Globe, 9/24/76
The First Debate: Not Exactly a Winner
Anyone who tuned in the first presi-
ten. Second, give the interrogators from
dential debate expecting a flash of revela-
the media further opportunity to chal-
tion on how to vote Nov. 2 must have been
lenge the facts and figures recited so pat-
disappointed last night. The event was
ly by the candidates.
Newsday, 9/24/76
uon me serveu as vice president.
DEBATES
8
THE ECONOMY DOMINANT AND MOST DIVISIVE ISSUE
By Thomas Oliphant
economy for general tax "evanescent as the morning
Globe Staff
reductions. People, he
clouds over San Clemente."
The economy.
thinks, spend money more
What's coming, the Presi-
wisely than government.
dent warned explicitly last
Except for the way each
Carter was the cautious
night, is a whopping in-
candidate looked and sound-
liberal, lashing at Ford as
crease in Federal spending
/
ed, it was the issue that
another Republican insensi-
that Carter, much less the
dominated last night's de-
tive to the unemployed, and
Democratic-controlled Con-
bate between Jimmy Carter
insisting that government
gress, will not be able to.
and Gerald Ford, and the is-
can act to reduce it by the
control. The end result, in'
Boston Globe, 9/24
By Martin Schram
Philadelphia-Jimmy Carter started nervously
administrative assistant, Greg Schneiders, agreed
that Carter had started out "nervously." But the
and timidly and finished strong. Gerald Ford start-
Carter men went on to say that, as they saw it,
ed fast and aggressive and tailed off slightly.
Ford came off as "a wooden" and "ineffective."
Last night's historic meeting of the presidential
And Carter himself said: "On the very. first
-:
-
1.
question T was sweating slimhtly but it was a tough
any поре,
- an even start. Ford, elated, told a group of sup-
Newsday, 9/24/76
porters after the debate: "We're at a turning point
in the campaign. From what I heard, we did all
right in that debate tonight."
10
Homework
E'll
PAPER
1000
THE DETROIT NEWS
Detroit News, 9/22/76
puys 1 resueni,
id when Carter criticized Ford for cruelty to people
and wins Round One
use of the veto, Ford countered by saying that Frank-
osevelt's average was 55 vetoes a year and Harry
in's 38, and that Carter, as governor of Georgia, had
By Robert Healy
an average of 35-40 a year. Carter appeared vague again 00
Globe Staff
his tax program, specifically on how he would balance the
PHILADELPHIA - President
budget, produce a tax cut and lower unemployment. The
Ford hoped to project an image of
President, as the man in charge of government, rattled off
being presidential and in command.
facts and figures.
He did.
In the wrap up, Carter reverted to the speeches he has
And in the bargain, he aggressively
been making on the stump - - that it was a. time for unity
destroyed in debate some of Jimmy
with a President and a Congress of the same party working
together. that the nation had an inner strength and that
him to the Democratic
12
Issues
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Ford Courts Ethnic Vote
President Ford, described as "upbeat" after his first de-
bate with Jimmy Carter, courted votes among Polish and Italian
Americans Friday, Promising to defend the concept of ethnic
neighborhoods.
The President addressed the Polish American Congress, and
shook hands with thousands as he walked through Philadelphia's
Italian market.
The President received a standing ovation when he told the
Polish-American Congress that he will continue to work for a
sovereign and independent Poland.
Then defending ethnic neighborhcods, Ford said: "The family
needs a neighborhood with local churches, local shops and local
schools Some of the healthiest heighborhoods in our cities are
Polish-American neighborhoods. (CBS)
Phil Jones said the President was trying to look like the
winner of the debates as he playfully inspected fruits and vege-
tables in Philadelphia's Italian marketplace.
Earlier in the day, the President told a crowd: "I feel
great. How do you feel this morning?" (ABC/NBC)
Bob Jamieson reported that Ford Campaign Director James
Baker thought the President summation could have been stronger,
but believed that Ford accomplished his goal -- a show of leader-
ship a command of facts and figures befitting the President, and
a willingness to put Carter on the defensive. (NBC)
The ABC report, which led the news, included film of the President
setting our on his day of campaigning, meeting with Polish- Americans,
and inspecting fruit in the Italian market.
Herbert Kaplow did a special ABC wrapup of the debate which included
film clip of Ford's attack on Carter's lack of specifics, and Carter's
attack on Ford for linking him to a Democratic Congress of which he is
not a member.
NBC's report, which ran fourth, showed film of the President leaving
the Philadelphia home where he staved last night, and addressing the
Polish Congress. Film was also shown of the President walking through
the Italian market, and Jamieson concluded the spot outside the White
House.
The CBS story, which ran fourth included film of the President
leaving in the morning, speaking to the Polish-Americans, and walking
through the Italian market. -AP,LPI, Networks (9/24/76)
13
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Special Prosecutor, SEC Probe Ford 1972 Campaign Finances
(By Fred Graham, CBS)
Watergate Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff has subpoenaed
the financial records of the largest known contributor to President
Ford's 1972 campaign, and one of his long-time most consistent
contributors--Marine Engineers Union.
The President of this union has been quoted as saying that
the Special Prosecutor seems mainly interested in two Republican
committees in Gerald Ford's home district. The Special Prosecutor
has also subpoenaed these two committees' records.
The Chairman of one committee told CBS that the records
included several contributions from the Marine Engineers Union
in the $2,000 range.
The Special Prosecutor normally only investigates only
political big wigs, and Ruff refused to discuss why he was
looking into two obscure Grand Rapids committees.
However, two former chairmen of Republican committees in
Grand Rapids told Robert Schakne Friday that the Special Prosectors
Office is asking specifically about Gerald Ford.
Thomas Bloodgood, who was chairman of the Kent County finance
committee in 1969 and 1970, said he was interviewed Friday afternoon
by an FBI agent and another federal official. Bloodgood said the
main thing they wanted to know was about contributions from the
Maritime Union and whether any of the money went back to Ford--
whether any cash was given and was it washed and sent back to Ford.
Eliot Seraphin, another former Kent County Finance Chairman,
said the FBI asked him Friday if any money was forwarded to Ford from
the finance committee. Both men said they told the FBI that no
money was diverted to Ford.
The SEC's investigation of. Ford involves a disclosure that
Congressman Ford was the guest of U.S. Steel on at least five
golking weekends, spent with U.S. Steel's Washington lobbyist
William Whyte.
Ron Nessen said Friday the campaign contribution matters
were investigated thoroughly when Ford was nominated to be Vice
President, and no wrong-doing was found. He said, "We haven't
inquired about this investigation, and we don't intend to."
--CBS (9/24/76)
14
U.S. Steel
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
No Reason for Jumping
To Conclusions on Ford
THERE ARE A great many questions
union that represents ships' officers working
raised by the action of the Watergate Special
the Great Lakes. and which made a hefty
Prosecutor in issuing subpenas for the re-
$7,500. contribution to Mr. Ford in his 1972
cords of the Kent County Republican Party
congressional race, would appear on the sur-
back to 1964.
face to add even more reason for such conclu-
as
Since that Grand Rapids organization was
sion-jumping.
the funnel through which much of then-Con-
But there is still too much that is unknown
Detroit Free Drace 9/73/76
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIG
Carter Says Ford Distorted Tax Reform Position
Jimmy Carter Friday claimed that President Ford made a dozen
inaccurate statements in their first debate including a "deliberate
distortion" of Carter's position on tax reform.
Carter rated his first debate with Ford a draw, although he conced
that the President showed that "his experience exceeds mine. " (AP)
Carter also acknowledged an error of his own, saying he made
a mistake for which he is "truly sorry" in linking former President
Johnson with Richard Nixon as an example of a chief executive who
lies, cheats and distorts the truth. "That was an unfortunate
juxtaposition of two names, " Carter said in reference to an intervie
in Playboy. "It was a mistake and I have apologized to Mrs. Johnson,
Carter added, explaining that he had meant to criticize the late
President for the fact that the public was not fully informed about
the Vietnam war. (NBC, CBS)
Carter again defended his statements on sex and religion
in the Playboy interview, saying he tried "to summarize in frank
terms the fact I was a Christian, what the Christian faith meant
to me, the fact that if I became President my strict religious
beliefs would not cause to be condemn others that might be different
from me in politics or among those who have commited sexual
acts that I myself have not commited." (ABC)
At airport news conferences in Philadelphia and Houston, Carter
analyzed the Thursday night debate, saying he was "a little too
reticent in being aggressive against the President" at the beginning
of their debate. "I didn't know exactly how to deal with the fact
that Mr. Ford was President but after the first question I felt
we were equal. 11 (NETS)
Carter said the President may have the advantage in the next
debate on defense and foreign policy but said he thought he would
win the third and final debates. (NBC)
He said, "I think by the end of the three debates, I will win
clearly. I think that will only be shown after the election on
November 2. I believe that after the first Kennedy-Nixon debate
there was only a one per centage point shift. " (NBC)
Carter aides belive their candidate bested Ford when he pointed
out what they termed administration failures to cut unemploýment.
and inflation through a lack of leadership, but lost some when
the President emphasized his governmental experience. They also
said the Presidnet scored unfairly through what they called his
deliberate distortion of Carter's remarks to AP. During his first
campaign speech since the debate, Carter did not mention the
encounter, but returned to his standard campaign theme of denouncing
the President's leadership ability. (CBS)
In response to a question from Sam Donaldson, Carter said he
16
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIG
thought he had checked whatever drift or uncertainty may have
existed in his campaign before the debates. "If Carter has still to
win the election, there is a feeling in his camp that he is no
longer losing it, " Donaldson reported. (ABC)
ABC's story, which ran #2, included film of Carter
speaking to reporters in Houston.
NBC's #5 story, following the Ford story, ran :45.
Two film segments were shown of Carter speaking. Most
of the reports was reported by anchor John Chancellor.
CBS's. story, running #6, included film of Carter speaking
to reporters at the Houston Airport.
-- PA, UPI. NETS -- (9/24/76)
Jimmy Carter's Project Days
By NEIL MAXWELL
tionally carried something of a stigma here-
PLAINS, Ga.-The tour bus, Plains' lat-
abouts.
est attempt to cope with the tourist crush
Less than a year later. the Carters
triggered by Jimmy Carter's candidacy.
rented a spacious house nearby. Then they
rumbles across the railroad tracks from
built a comfortable home of their own. In
the carnival that downtown has become.
1953, the young family conceivably could
Wall Street Journal, 9/24/76
Election Panel Crackdown
BY GRAYSON MITCHELL
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-The Federal
To receive federal matching funds
Election Commission ordered a
for the services, according to the
crack-down Thursday on the report-
Evening Tribune article. the Carter
ing of political campaign expenses
campaign suggested to the volunteer
and an inquiry into questionable
that he bill the campaign for his ser-
fund-raising practices by the pres-
vices. The campaign then sent the
idential campaign of Jimmy Carter.
volunteer an unsigned check for $500
L.A. Times, 9/24/76
riayboy interview
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
THE ISSUE TO END ALL ISSUES
Lust, but Not Least
BY ELLEN GOODMAN
BOSTON-Stop the presses. Pull out the
the mind of the beholder, rather than the
six-inch type: Jimmy Carter has lusted. And
arms of the holder.
more than once.
I've never really understood sins of
Who would have thought it? He comes
thought. They raise so many questions. Is it
from such a nice family. He seems to have
lust to look? Is it lust to find someone attrac-
been such a good boy. Even his grade-school
tive? How attractive is okay? Is it possible to
teachers would have never supposed that he
lust after one's own spouse and is that 2 sin?
L.A. Times, 9/24/76
20
Strategy
ELECTION
Race Is Close in States That Coun
compensates by snaring other states which now
BY LOYE MILLER JR.
seem within Ford's reach.
Free Press Washington Staff
But for the president to upset Carter, he must
WASHINGTON Despite his substantial lead in
virtually sweep the large states across the board.
national polls, Jimmy Carter's margin over Presi-
dent Ford is much narrower in the populous indus-
AS UNLIKELY AS this might seem, it is still far
trial-state belt which is the key battleground of the
more possible than many people realize simply
fall campaign.
because polls of both campaigns show the race in
Strategists for both Ford and Carter agree that
the big states to be surprisingly close.
the presidency will probably he won hv the candi-
In New York, for instance - a state which the
Detroit Free Press, 9/23/76
Tight California Race Could Help Ford
GOP Better Prepared Under New Rulings, Observers Say
BY KENNETH REICH
dications are that the 57% to 36%
have done next to nothing to raise
Times Staff Writer
Democrat-over-Republican registra-
milar funds on the Democratic side.
SACRAMENTO-If the race be-
tion edge that prevailed earlier in the
Attemps over a two-day span to
tween President Ford and Jimmy
year will about hold.
reach Manatt for comment were una-
Carter in California is close-and po-
A number of the political observers
vailing.
litical organization thereby has more
interviewed pointed to an Aug. 31
As it is, there continues to be con-
of a chance to count decisively in the
letter to party committees from the
cern on ths Democratic side that the
outcome-Ford may have an edge.
Federal Elections Commission as
Ford campaign may be better orga-
Interviews in recent days with
having perhaps a highly significant
nized than the Carter campaign in
Adherents of the primary.
hopes among Democrats of massive
Democrate complained privately that
Democratic gains in registration. but
state Democratic Chairman Charles
L.A. Times, 9/24/76
apparently these hopes are not being
Manatt and other ranking members
realized in full. Some preliminary in-
of the party's California hierarchy
PRESIDENCY
Tax Bill Full
Of Weaknesses
Revision, not reform, is the word for the tax bill giv-
families get credits of up to 10% of their earnings even'
en final congressional approval by the House Thursday.
if they owe no taxes. This is supposed to encourage
The measure does little to change the now standard
working families to stay off welfare but one can't help
concept of taxation as a device for reward, punishment
but observe that the basic concept of this credit is, in
and political popularity.
itself, a form of welfare, and worry about just how
much it eventually will cost other taxpayers to keep
However, President Ford has little choice but to sign
people working.
it. The government must meet
Milwaukee Sentinel, (?@) ?&¢